Aiming for Better Data Governance
Today Steve gives a reason why your organization might consider improving its data governance.
Stairway to Biml Level 7 – Populating the Database for a Custom Biml Framework
In this next level of the Stairway to Biml, we look at a custom framework in Biml.
Power BI Histogram Example using DAX
Companies use a Bell Curve approach to measure performance. As part of this approach they create a histogram. A histogram is a statistical concept and according to Wikipedia it is defined as a graphical distribution of the numerical data. A histogram is made of several bins and bins can be considered a range of values or a benchmark
When SQL Server Performance Goes Bad: Rogue Indexes
Phil Factor explains how SQL Monitor helps focus performance tuning efforts on the tables and queries where 'rogue indexes' might be a significant problem, and then how to identify both 'missing' indexes that might be beneficial to the overall workload, and those that are unused or duplicated, and so are doing more harm than good.
SQL Server Wait Stats Monitoring with PowerShell
In this article we add another module to the PowerShell monitoring process to capture wait stats for all monitored SQL Server instances.
SQL Server 2017 Installation Error with KB2919355
Recently I was installing SQL Server 2017 and I could not believe a simple installation took up my whole day. I was installing an instance on one newly built Windows 2012 R2 server. After clicking next a few times, I got an error: a rule failure, for KB2919355. I downloaded the KB2919355 as mentioned in […]
Fully Left-Shifted Deployments with Version Control and Automatic Cloning
Discover the future of DevOps! Join Microsoft MVP Kendra Little to see Redgate's recent innovations in action and give you a picture of where Database DevOps is going, and why.
Storage 101: The Future of Storage
Robert Sheldon wraps up his series on storage by discussing the latest storage innovation and ideas.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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